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Biggest British gains of the week in East Africa came 1,150 miles south of Cheren in Italian Somaliland. South African forces covered 70 miles in two days, pushed into Chisimaio on the tepid Indian Ocean. Supported by the Royal Navy and the South African Air Force, these blistered fighters were all set to start up the 250-mile coastal road to the capital city of Magadiscio...
From Vienna, Rome. Zurich and Paris five eminent medical specialists hustled last week to the Carpathian Mountain royal palace at Sinaia, Rumania. The patient awaiting them was Dowager Queen Marie, 61. From Vienna hustled famed Hans Eppinger, specialist in heart diseases. From Rome hustled Sir Aldo Castellani. Count of Chisimaio, specialist in yellow fever, dysentery, sleeping sickness and other tropical diseases (TIME. June 8, 1936). Other hustlers included a radiologist and a liver specialist. Soon from Professor Eppinger came the first definite announcement of what was the matter with Queen Marie, reported sick since last March. Marie of Rumania...
...Commissioner for East Africa made Italians able to fool pessimists who said their army could never live and conquer amid the heat and pullulating pestilences of Ethiopia. Sir "Aldo's title of British knighthood was superseded as His Majesty conferred on him the hereditary Italian title Count of Chisimaio...
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